Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From left to right, district attorney Buron Fitts, his brother-in-law George Gregory, his mother Ardell Fitts, and his sister Berthel Gregory, possibly during the siblings' perjury trial.
Date:: [between 1928-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On February 7, 1936, District Attorney Buron Fitts was acquitted of perjury regarding a 1931 testimony over the sale of a Claremont orange grove. Mrs. Berthall Gregory, Fitts’ sister, sold the grove to Lucien C. Wheeler. Fitts reportedly falsified the amount of money he received through the sale. The perjury trial lasted three weeks.
Date:: February 7, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Chief deputy district attorney Buron Fitts (seated, right) with Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs: seated, from left: Deputy George Contreras, and Deputy James McDonald; standing, left to right: Deputy Sheriff Vincent J. Monteleone and investigator Harry Johnson from the District Attorney's office.
Date:: 1930-1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with the article "JURY TAMPERING CHARGED AT KEYES TRIAL OPENING: Judge Declares Woman ...," Los Angeles Times , 8 Jan. 1929: A1.
Date:: January 7, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: District attorneys Buron Fitts (left), Asa Keyes (center) and Edward Dennison, in a law office, lean towards a configuration of five toy vehicles positioned on a desk, perhaps to analyze an automobile accident. The toys represent 4 trucks and a street car.
Date:: [between 1922-1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: District Attorney Buron Fitts sits at his desk surrounded by flowers.
Date:: [between 1927-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Buron Fitts standing and smiling in his office. He wears a necktie with a small dot pattern.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Buron Firrs gestures with one hand and holds papers in the other.
Date:: 1920-1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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